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     2000 to 2004

This page highlights ICT industry developments from 2000 to 2004.

It covers -

• 2000
• 2001
• 2002
• 2003
• 2004

     2000

• 'Great Dot-com Crash' of April 2000
• EU Electronic Commerce Directive
• Bell Canada spins off Nortel stake to shareholders
• 10,000 pinball machines manufactured in US
• Motorola merges with General Instrument Corporation
• Logica buys MITS (Australia)and PDV Unternehmensberatung
• Marconi buys Bosch Public Networks
• Nortel buys Xros and Dimension Enterprises
• WC3 releases Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines
• Alcatel buys Newbridge, Genesys and Innovative Fibers
• Nortel buys Alteon WebSystems, CoreTek and Photonic Technologies
• Avaya spun off from Lucent
• Frankel releases Gnutella
• Microsoft invests US$40m in CAIS Internet and buys 26% of Gilat Satellite Networks broadband for US$50m

     2001

• Hewlett-Packard merges with Compaq in US$87bn deal
• Novell acquires Cambridge Technology Partners
• C&W America buys Exodus Communications for US$800m
• Bill Gates listed as world's richest man
• Napster ordered by US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to block copyrighted music
• Microsoft sells stakes in TransPoint and Titus Communications for US$400m
• Apple releases iPod
• Microsoft buys Great Plains software

     2002

• IBM buys PwC Consulting for US$3.5bn
• EU Directive on Privacy & Electronic Communications
• IBM buys Rational Software for US$2.1bn
• Yahoo! buys Inktomi
• Logica and CMG merge as LogicaCMG
• Yahoo buys HotJobs job board for US$436m
• Microsoft buys Navision for US$1.34bn

     2003

• EMC buys Legato for US$1.3bn
• Google buys Blogger
• EMC buys Documentum for US$1.7bn
• CSC buys DynCorp for US$950m
• EMC buys VMware for US$635m
• Microsoft sells sold its stake in Telewest to US telco IDT

     2004

• Oracle acquires PeopleSoft for US$10.3bn
• Symantec buys Veritas in US$13.5bn deal
• LexisNexis acquires Seisint for US$775m
• Microsoft pays Sun over US$1.95bn to settle lawsuits and patent disputes
• IBM sells personal computer division to Lenovo
• Freescale Semiconductor spun out of Motorola

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